Biography
Born in Winnipeg, David grew up on a diet of Marvel comic books and Edgar Rice Burrows novels. In the seventies, even after Tolkien's great work, both Fantasy and Science Fiction were still considered grade B stuff, until George Lucas changed the status of Science Fiction forever with Star Wars. Suddenly the genre was in vogue and marketable.
In 1980, convinced he could write epic High Fantasy, David purchased a used Underwood typewriter and set to work stumbling from one page to the next with absolutely no idea of what a protagonist was or where his plot was going. In three months he managed to produce 75 dreadful pages which he abandoned in disgust to get on with life.
Though that manuscript from 1980 was long gone, David never gave up on his dream of being a Fantasy writer. In 2002 he enrolled in a Writer's Digest correspondence course. It was choice that changed his life. His instructor was Steven F. Havill who taught him things like what POV (point of view) meant, why horses don't crawl, that stories have plots and most importantly, how to make an outline. Armed with all this knowledge David spent the next two years writing the first draft of FireDrakes. A short synopsis and the first chapter are available on this site.
